Imposes detailed recruitment, layoff, and wage attestations on employers seeking to hire immigrants under the new points-based system, with investigations, civil and criminal penalties, and petition disapprovals for noncompliance, so more immigration enforcement in the employment context.
An employer's attestation meets the requirements described in section 204A(a)(2) if the employer-- (1) attests the employer, before making a bona fide job offer to the alien-- (A) took good faith steps to recruit United States workers for the job for which the alien has been made an offer using procedures that meet industry-wide standards and offering compensation that is not less than the compensation offered to the alien; and (B) offered the job to any United States worker who applied and was equally or better qualified for the job offered to the alien than such alien;
Eliminates the diversity visa lottery, reduces family-based immigration to only nuclear family (spouses and minor children of LPRs, excluding parents of citizens), replaces employment-based categories with a points-based system, and adds a mandatory 'American values' attestation barring support for,
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to protect American workers and values.
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Stage: Committee · step 2 of 6
Last action
2026-09-23: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill expands immigration enforcement by adding strict employer attestations and penalties to protect U.S. workers from immigrant hiring (employment-e-verify subtag), eliminating the diversity lottery, narrowing family immigration to nuclear family only, replacing employment visas with a points system, and imposing a broad 'American values' loyalty attestation that screens out applicants based on past or future support for listed activities or organizations.